Background

Recently a separate mailinglist has been created for announcements only.
It would be nice if new events, workshops, projects created with the forms on the wiki would be announced automatically on the announce mailinglist. This way people are getting notified on what's going on, without having to follow all the discussions. To accomplish this, a piece of software (plugin) should be written to send the mails.

how it works

The announcementmailer works through a tiny extension that hooks into the mediawiki installation.
The extension will be triggered when a new 'article' is added through the wiki (by adding a hook to the ArticleInsertComplete event)

NOTE: the recipient and the sender email addresses are hardcoded in the script, you can easily change them when needed: